Installation 💻

There are three ways to use Crawl4AI:

1. As a library
2. As a local server (Docker)
3. As a Google Colab notebook.

To install Crawl4AI as a library, follow these steps:

1. Install the package from GitHub:

   virtualenv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   pip install "crawl4ai[all] @ git+https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai.git"
               

2. Run the following command to load the required models. This is optional, but it will boost the performance and speed of the crawler. You need to do this only once.

   crawl4ai-download-models

3. Alternatively, you can clone the repository and install the package locally:

   virtualenv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   git clone https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai.git
   cd crawl4ai
   pip install -e .[all]
   

4. Use docker to run the local server:

   docker build -t crawl4ai . 
   # docker build --platform linux/amd64 -t crawl4ai . For Mac users
   docker run -d -p 8000:80 crawl4ai

For more information about how to run Crawl4AI as a local server, please refer to the GitHub repository.